CBC 2004 Gotta Skate broadcast

[jcspkbfan]

Just a reminder that CBC will broadcast Kurt Browning's 2004 Gotta Skate special tonight (Dec. 8). I'm crossing my fingers tonight's broadcast will include Kurt's "You Win Again" and at least part of the group number French CBC chacked from their Gotta Skate broadcast last month. :)

[Artemis]

Well it's only an hour tonight so don't hold your breath. Or if you do hold your breath ;) do so until the 2-hour broadcast on NBC on Sunday Dec 19.

[ngcskate]

I found the broadcast very disappointing. Camera angles were odd, the camera favoured the singers over the skaters, and not enough skating! The 50's number was fine, but Kurt with the hair made almost no sense after being cut from the entire number.

Thumbs down CBC.

[Artemis]

... the camera favoured the singers over the skaters ...

Yes that's a general complaint of mine for most skating shows with live musicians. With the exception of last year's Gotta Skate when Michael Bublé was the guest. :D :yum:

[Fruit Loops]

The program was OK. I'm much more interested in the upcoming Holiday Special. But I liked the opening number with the three great Canadian men of the past twenty years. It was fun to see them together. It made me wonder if any of our current men were/will be worthy to join them someday.

Hour-long skating programs feel kinda empty and definately leaving me wishing for more. I haven't seen the program live or anywhere else, so I don't really know what I missed. I liked Elvis' Jimmy Eat World program and S&P's Over the Rainbow. It was very cute! Shae-Lynn is also a great solo ice dancer. I just didn't like this particular version of All That Jazz. The voice was annoying.

[Peter_K]

Has anyone else who was at the event noticed that a couple of the songs were replaced with alternate versions?

Maybe it's just my imagination, but Shae-lynn's All that Jazz and Elvis' program music seemed to be different versions of the same songs from what I remember hearing at Copps. Maybe they just couldn't license the versions of the music they had on the live show.

One thing that tends to give this away is the extra amount of "clarity" and lack of reverberation in those two songs.

I think I'm going to drag my minidisc to the next show I go to to see what happens. :)

(I have seen some commercial skating tapes where the original music was replaced with some rather bad generic music but that's a whole different issue.)

And am I the only person who thinks pop singers shouldn't venture into the classical arena?

--Peter

[jcspkbfan]

Well, CBC didn't show Kurt's "You Win Again" or the other '50s group number (there were two '50s group numbers during the show--one in the middle and one at the end--CBC and SRC both chacked the one in the middle), but considering the length of the broadcast, I wasn't really surprised. I'm crossing my fingers at least "You Win Again" will be included on the NBC broadcast since that was the program Kurt skated during his Today Show appearance a few weeks ago. :)

It was nice to see at least part of Kurt's chat with Jann Arden (which SRC chacked) and Brian Orser's Josh Groban program (SRC aired his "Somewhere In Time" number instead), though!

I'm :roll: as to why CBC showed the Nessun Dorna opening number in the middle of the broadcast, though. :frus:

I know CBC sometimes uses different dubbed-in pieces of music during some of the numbers in their CSOI broadcasts (because they couldn't afford the music rights to the original songs), but I haven't noticed whether or not they've done the same thing during any of their other skating show broadcasts. It'll be interesting to see whether NBC uses the same versions of the songs in their broadcast since US networks have much bigger budgets than the CBC and usually have no problem acquiring music rights.

I did notice CBC used some different camera angles than SRC for Kurt, Elvis and Brian's number, though, which was nice since I got to see a lot of choreography that SRC missed. :) I don't know whether CBC did this for any of the other programs they showed (or which version will be included in the NBC broadcast), but I'm hoping at least there will be a better ratio of closeups of Michael Bolton vs. clips of Kurt actually skating during Kurt's second solo (which I really liked--well, the half of it we actually got to see during the broadcast, anyway!) I really hope to see at least one Michael Bolton-free performance of that number someday! :D

[ngcskate]

I don't know about the music for Shae Lynn's number other than it sounded like the same version she skated to this morning on the Today show. Elvis' "In The Middle" was definitely the original version. Both he and Brasseur and Eisler have used it over the last couple of years.